September 8, 2009, Tuesday

In his essay, Brian Alexander (The Way We Live Now, Sept. 26) discusses the idea that the First Amendment might protect human-cloning experiments from regulation. By quoting one sentence out of context, Alexander converts my introduction of the First...

Bioethics advisers to President Bush released a report on Thursday that urged restraints on the largely unregulated test-tube baby business but remained silent on some hot-button issues in assisted reproduction. The President's Council on...

For men who had just thrown a giant ethical bomb into the world of science, Dr. Woo Suk Hwang and Dr. Shin Yong Moon were dashing about Seattle last week in a remarkably relaxed mood. Dr. Hwang, 51, and Dr. Moon, 56, faculty members at Seoul...

October 19, 2003, Sunday

Laying a broad basis for possible future prescriptions, the President's Council on Bioethics yesterday issued an analysis of how biotechnology could lead toward unintended and destructive ends. Called ''Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the...

October 17, 2003, Friday

Before Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge, the serpent had already opened her eyes. Genesis tells us that she saw that the tree was ''good for food,'' that it was ''a delight to the eyes,'' and that it could ''make one wise.'' She already understood,...

To the Editor: In '''How One Clone Leads to Another'' (Op-Ed, Jan. 24), Leon R. Kass says ''there is virtually no precedent in animal work that demonstrates the unique benefits of creating and exploiting cloned embryos.'' In 2002, my colleagues...

January 27, 2003, Monday

To the Editor: I was disappointed that in opposing cloning, Leon R. Kass (Op-Ed, Jan. 24) declined to say that with in vitro fertilization and sperm and egg shopping, we have already turned procreation into manufacturing. The eugenics revolution...